exemplify possible applications related to trade and FDI. By overcoming several data limitations, our new global index can help …

challenge the view that greater openness to trade automatically leads to improved firm entry institutions. My model enables … calculating business entry impediments whereas lobbying game produces structural estimates of the counterfactual levels of trade … extensive margin and asymmetries in technology and trade costs. Importantly, the model demonstrates that startling differences …

The paper uses a gravity model to examine the role of corruption in the direction of trade in a data set comprising … membership of the RTAs does not always increase bilateral trade whereas reducing a country's corruption does tend to increase … trade flows. The results suggest that EU membership, with the associated improvement in the perceived level of corruption …

The paper analyses sectoral patterns of intra-Asian trade for selected Asian countries as well as for sub … extra-Asian trade, almost all sample countries concentrate their intra-Asian exports more on non-manufactures. Within … manufactures, resource-intensive goods still play a larger role in intra-Asian trade than in trade outside Asia. This reflects both …

Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central … Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as relevant external actors. We develop a concept for our … analysis based on the different strategies of Russia (dominance) and China (doing-business) towards the region and present the …

model for climate policy analyses. It analyzes China’s accession to a Post Kyoto emission regime that keeps global emissions …, China will become a net seller of emission permits and steadily reduce emissions, possibly below their 2004 level until 2030 … on Chinese welfare will not significantly change when China joins the Post Kyoto regime …

in Asia has been the rise of China, and not preferential trade agreements. In the last two decades, Chinas has managed to … establish itself as the indispensable trading partner in the region. In 2011, China accepted a trade deficit with its …Preferential trade agreements are mushrooming in Asia. However, they have not been facilitating intra-regional trade as …

piracy there are goods that the South will not produce. Piracy will then lead to a reallocation of innovative activity in … dynamic learning externalities than the other goods, and that their share in consumption is small. Thus, whether or not piracy …) from piracy than the South, because monopoly profits eventually accrue to the North, the South may lose more than the North …

This short note tries to argue that distance is not necessarily harmful for trade. It is shown that there may be an … increase in the production and volume of trade if time zones of the trading nations are non-overlapping. This implies a … positive effect of distance on the volume of trade. It is also shown that exploitation of time zone difference raises welfare …